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Biological order, structure and instabilities1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2009

I. Prigogine  and
G. Nicolis
G. Nicolis
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Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, and Center for Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.
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Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics , Volume 4 , Issue 2-3 , August 1971 , pp. 107 - 148
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